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HCMC – Exhibition “From Phố Phái to Houses Facing the Street”
Opening: Sun 13 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 13 Oct – 13 Nov 2013
Eight Gallery
Lafayette Building, 8 Phung Khac Khoan st., Dist 1, HCMC
You are invited to the exhibition “From Phố Phái to Houses Facing the Street” by artist Nguyen The Son.
“The houses with their faces to the street (the Nha Mat Phos) speak clearly. They symbolize the power of money – and yet, every facade has a reverse side. The part you don’t see right away…
Where are the stars and the real heroes of everyday life? With a second, closer look at the relief-like photographs (embossment photos) in Nguyen The Son’s installation we see people passing by on motorcycles. Families, workers, mothers with their children. Outfitted with the products of progress, their movements mirror the tempo of the times, and even the variety of motorcycles testifies to economic change. He places them, barely visible, before a world of colorful and ever more elaborate facades. They appear as small traces that will never match the giant models on the Nha Mat Phos, and yet they transport as industriously as ever their supposed personal happiness. Tinkering with the great reform and often overlooking, in the shadow of the grand facades, that the question of power has long since been decided.”
Welcome To Lu Yang’s Hell VIDEO PARTY
Sun 13 Oct 2013 Mon 14 Oct 2013, 6 pm
Nha San Collective
3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is pleased to invited you to a video party “WELCOME TO LU YANG’S HELL”.
Lu Yang was born in 1984 in Shanghai. She graduated from Master of Arts New Media Art department, China Academy of Art in 2010. Being one of the most talented and blowing mind young media artists in China, Lu Yang has exhibited in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, Australia, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, America..
In her work, Lu Yang mixes science, bio-art with pop culture, religion and goes deep in identity issues, such as sexual orientation, genetics, reproduction, and problems with evolution.
CAMA Festival 7: the Show will Go on
Wed 9 Oct 2013, 9 pm
CAMA ATK
73A Mai Hac De
With DJ Metro Tokyo and Raggabund (mini-show)
Entry by donation
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Thu 10 Oct 2013, 7 – 11.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van
With The Pinholes, Raggabund, Zoo, The Cairos
Entry VND 200,000
CAMA Festival #7 may have been cancelled, but the show will go on in a limited capacity at two mid-week events.
Wednesday: Metro Tokyo founded China’s FakeMusicMedia which produces much of Beijing’s best disco nights and brought the likes of Jeans Team, Pitchtuner and Jahcoozi to China’s capital. In between Metro Tokyo has forged a name for himself as the go-to guy for electro disco in venues from Brooklyn to Berlin, Buenos Aires to Beijing. Raggabund will be giving Hanoians a teaser of what they can do by joining Metro Tokyo for a 30 minute mini-show. Look out for the reggae duo from 10pm onwards.
All the big guns will be out for five hours of musical diversity at Hanoi Rock City. With reggae, electro, rock, pop and psychedelia on the menu, there is something for everyone, so get down and help us make the most of what would have been CAMA Festival #7.
The Cairos (Australia)
Brisbane has long been Australia’s most fertile breeding ground for bands, a tradition which The Cairos look intent on continuing. The youthful four-piece bristle with energy and write infectious pop inspired by an upbringing of melodic sixties pop. Add a teenage youth of shoegaze to the mix and you start to see the roots of the group’s upbeat indie which is soundtracking Brisbane’s never-ending summers. Learn some chorus’s by checking out Colours Like Features, their first EP since signing to Island Records, then come sing along with them in Hanoi.
“It’s disgusting how young they are to be sounding this good.” – Rave Magazine
ZOO
India isn’t renowned for its modern music, but Zoo are going someway to changing that. The polished quintet marry electro, techno, and rock into a series of brooding tracks that build into full-on cut-loose freakouts of electronic rock. Keeping everyone’s attention is charismatic female vocalist Tanya Sen.
THE PINHOLES
Who would’ve thought Singapore would produce a band making psychedelic sixties pop in 2013? The Pinholes are doing just that. Steeped in the sounds of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd, the group have just released an EP of repetitive guitar riffs that demand floppy-necked dancing and geometric light shows in celebration of youth, sunshine and rock and roll. Dance to the Youth of Gold EP in your bedroom, then break out your moves on the grass and in the afternoon sun of CAMA Festival 7.
RAGGABUND
Raggabund is no longer an insider’s secret! For years now the musical duo of brothers Paco Mendoza and Don Caramelo have been supplying their diverse fan base with high quality Reggae, Latin and Dancehall. Multitalented lead lyricist Paco Mendoza holds a degree in political science, is active as a producer and composer and hosts a weekly radio show called “Mestizo FM” at Funkhaus Europa (WDR). All of which has given the duo plenty of ammo with which to express their love for Jamaican music and socially conscious lyrics since 2000 in a smooth mix of reggae and urban dancehall.
Concert with Youth Chamber Orchestra SEAYCO
Mon 14 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Vietnam National Academy of Music
77 Hao Nam Str., Dong Da Distr., Ha Noi
The South East Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra SEAYCO was founded in 2012 on mutual initiative of the Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia, to support outstanding musical talents. The concept is easy: 26 young musicians, being chosen on basis of an audition, come together twice a year for Summerschool at Mahidol College in Salaya, Thailand. Under the direction of German conductor Nicolas Pasquet, they rehearse a concert program that is being presented first in Thailand and afterwards in one other country. The project is about high quality music, but also about a common musical “spirit”. The young people come from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia and Vietnam.
From 05 to 13 Oct, the next SEAYCO classes in Thailand will take place: The program the ensemble rehearses under the direction of Nicolas Pasquet and with the German violin soloist Tobias Feldmann includes a variety of works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schubert. Following the Summerschool, the Orchestra will come to Hanoi on invitation of the Goethe-Institut to play a big concert at the National Academy of Music – a special event for the young musicians and an opportunity to strengthen friendships made in Salaya.
Program
Conductor | Nicolas Pasquet
Soloist | Tobias Feldmann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | Violin Concerto in A-Major
Allegro aperto
Adagio
Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) | String Symphony in H-Minor
Adagio
Allegro
Coda più presto
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) | Symphony No. 5 in B-Major
Allegro
Andante con moto
Menuetto. Allegro molto – Trio
Allegro vivace
Free admission.
Music Festival of France and Vietnam “OHLÀLÀ” CANCELLED
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From L’Espace and Embassy of France:
The Embassy of France in Vietnam regret to announce that due to the three days of national mourning in memory of General Vo Nguyen Giap, scheduled for Friday 11 – Sunday 13 October, Music Festival of France and Vietnam “OHLÀLÀ” on Saturday 12 October will be cancelled.
Those who have bought advanced tickets for the event can claim a full refund at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien. The cancellation of music festival during this period is mandatory and beyond our control. We hope for your understanding.
Time to receive a refund at L’Espace: 9 am – 5 pm, Monday to Saturday.
CAMA Festival 7 cancelled
CAMA Vietnam regret to announce that due to the three days of national mourning in memory of General Vo Nguyen Giap, scheduled for Friday 11 – Sunday 13 October, CAMA Festival 7 will not be able to take place this year.
The cancellation of all entertainment events during this period is mandatory and beyond our control.
We have spent the last few days trying to clarify the situation and find alternatives, but unfortunately, there are no other dates on which we can hold the event.
This evening we are informing all festival participants before making a public announcement tonight.
From tomorrow, your help would be greatly appreciated to let as many people as possible know about the cancellation.
Those who have bought advanced tickets for the event, can claim a full refund at the location where they purchased the ticket. Refunds must be claimed by Friday 11 October, and are only valid at the location where the tickets were purchased.
Thanks for your support in the lead up to the event and your understanding at the cancellation.
However, prior to the mourning period, CAMA will organize a show on Thursday 10 October featuring CAMA Festival performers Raggabund (Germany), Zoo (India), The Pinholes (Singapore) and The Cairos (Australia). More info about the bands here.
Thu 10 Oct, 7 – 11.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi.
Tickets are VND200,000, available on the door.
Music Night with Peter Maybarduk
Fri 11 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Washington DC based indie folk-rock musician Peter Maybarduk comes to The Hanoi Social Club for a single Hanoi show. Vocal melodies, thoughful lyrics, at turns reflective then power-pop showcase.
Listen to songs from his latest album – quality melodies infused with a social conscience.
Once, and only once at The Hanoi Social Club!
Review of his latest album “A ring around the Atlantic”:
“By turns a world music album, field recording, and power pop showcase, A Ring Around the Atlantic is thoughtfully written and orchestrated and features the standout production value of The Magpie Cage’s J. Robbins. Maybarduk’s voice, breathy and soft, reminds me of Hey Marseilles’ Matt Bishop and Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis. His songwriting is thought-provoking without being pedantic, helped by the album’s relentlessly catchy hooks and strong backing musicians.”
Tickets: 100 000 VND (tickets at the door)
HCMC – Concert of Poni Hoax
Wed 09 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Q4 / Cargo Bar
7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D.4, HCMC
In support of 40 years of renewed diplomatic relationships between France and Vietnam, Poni Hoax will have one night concert on October 9th 2013 in HCMC.
They have been compared to Daft Punk, Nick Cave, David Bowie and even David Byrne in the course of their 12 year career. They list the Rolling Stones and The Doors as the only influences they can all agree on.
They have toured the last couple of years to from Paris to New York, Montreal, London, Oslo, Moscow and Toronto, including sold out concerts in Paris and opening for Franz Ferdinand in London.
Tickets
150.000vnd in advance (keewi.me)
250.000vnd on the door
150.000vnd student tickets
Poni Hoax also plays at Music Festival of France and Vietnam “OHLÀLÀ” in Hanoi.
Looking at the Big Sky – Young Video Art from Germany
HCMC: Lecture and Screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann: Thu 10 Oct, 6 pm
San Art Laboratory
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Hanoi: Opening with lecture and screening: “Looking at the Big Sky”: Fri 11 Oct, 6.30 pm
Discussion with curator Dr. Buschmann: Sat 12 Oct (Need registration)
Exhibition: 12 – 20 Oct 2013, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Under the title “Looking at the Big Sky” 13 Videos of students from German art schools were chosen to be exhibited in Goethe-Institutes around the world. With the title “Looking at the Big Sky”, artists were supposed to be inspired to cross borders, to give free rein to ideas and illusions and think outside the box. The results offer an astonishing variety of motifs and practices when approaching the theme.
The Sky evokes a variety of different associations: The faraway horizon stands as a symbol for vastness of thoughts, freedom, openness, and unlimited possibilities, all that is connected with the blue Sky or a starlit night.
With the title “Looking at the Big Sky”, artists were supposed to inspired to cross borders, to give free rein to ideas and illusions and think outside the box. The results offer an astonishing variety of motifs and practices when approaching the theme. Some tell fictional stories, individual assertions and performances are shown, while others present pseudo-documentary formats. Reaching for the sky in so many different ways, the videos sometimes aim at an individual internal view, that finds meaning in the seemingly insignificant and unspectacular, and other times seek to formulate an outlook on the immeasurable and indeterminate.
Program
• Lecture and Screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann
Thursday, 10.10.2013, 6pm
San Art Laboratory, 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Ward 19, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
(Englisch with Vietnamese translation)
• Opening with lecture and screening: “Looking at the Big Sky” with curator Dr. Renate Buschmann
Friday, 11.10.2013, 6.30pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
(English with Vietnamese translation)
• Discussion with curator Dr. Buschmann
In cooperation with Hanoi Doclab
Saturday, 12.10.2013
+ 9am – 12am: The role of the curator in media art
Dr Renate Buschmann speaks about her work as a curator and explains the practice of curating using works from the exhibition. Also, she will introduce the work of the imai – inter media art institute in Düsseldorf.
+ 2.30pm – 5.30pm: Photography and video art in the digital age and the future of media art
Dr Renate Buschmann gives a short introduction and comments on the works of young photographers and video artists.
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
(English with Vietnamese translation)
Registration until Thursday, 10.10.2013 at Hanoi Doclab: hanoidoclab@gmail.com
Exhibition | 12.10. – 20.10.2013, daily from 9am to 7pm
Venue | Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Free Entry
Language of all programs: English with Vietnamese translation
Please find more information on the following website: www.goethe.de/vietnam and www.imaionline.de
Renate Buschmann, director of imai – the inter media art institute in Düsseldorf curated the exhibition “Looking at the Big Sky”. On October 11th, she will give a lecture at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi on the development of the German video scene and the difference between video art and experimental or other forms of movies. Furthermore she will introduce “Looking at the Big Sky” and explain how the works are typical of young German video art. On October 12th, she will also conduct a workshop with young curators and artists from Hanoi.
Exhibition “The Day before the Renaissance”
Exhibition: 11 Oct – 09 Nov 2013
Galerie Quynh
65 Đề Thám
District 1, HCMC
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM; closed Sundays and Mondays
Come to the Hoang Duong Cam’s solo exhibition ” The day before the Renaissance”. The exhibition features new and rarely seen works by Hoang. The show focuses on two bodies of work by the artist: ‘Pinhole, 1972’ (2012 – 2013) and ‘The Bathers’ (2009), both of which are inspired by the Renaissance, a period of history that the artist equates with personal liberation.
The era was marked with a desire to learn, to improve oneself, as well as the wider world, and brought with it exhilaration, promise and change. Hoang imagines the same atmosphere in Vietnam in 1972 when the country was still at war with the U.S. For ‘Pinhole, 1972’ the artist draws upon the historical accounts of Hanoi in former East German journalist Thomas Billhardt’s 1972 photo essay “Hanoi Am Tage vor dem Friede.” The works began with Hoang re-photographing the images in Billhardt’s book using a pinhole lens, intentionally creating gaps and distortions of the original photos which are devoid of captions. The paintings themselves depict deceptively innocent images that are simultaneously figurative and abstract with elusive forms and suspended, colorful fragments. That Hoang focuses on images from 1972 is significant as the year marks the marriage of his parents. The series is a highly personal one that involved research into his family archives resulting in a journey that has revealed complex and layered histories, memories and stories of resilient individuals uncertain about the future yet filled with hope.
The most recent ‘Pinhole, 1972’ paintings include images the artist culled from the web of central and south Vietnam during this period. As Billhardt’s book reflects only narratives from the North, Hoang wanted to include stories and perspectives from other regions of Vietnam in this series of work that celebrates and memorializes a dramatic period of Vietnamese history.
‘The Bathers’, too, was inspired by photo essays but from those originating in North Korea while Hoang was in Tokyo on an artist residency. Hoang states, “I felt anxiety about North Korea nearby. Then down on the streets I felt the contrary. People hurriedly walking; they seemed to be very indifferent. In the news, the complaints of the journalists about the difficulties when taking photographs of North Korean people struck me. I found the daily photo essays from North Korea interesting. It was like a big deadly show.” Referring to the theatricality of war, Hoang’s characters appear as masks and communicate a state of confusion as experienced through the photojournalists. Borrowing its title from Michelangelo’s unfinished fresco of the Florentine army, nude after a dip in the river, hastily preparing for battle against Pisa, ‘The Bathers’ suggests that change is afoot and hope and desire will endure.
ABOUT HOANG DUONG CAM
One of Vietnam’s most daring conceptual artists, Hoang Duong Cam (born 1974, Hanoi) completed his studies at the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 1996. Hoang has participated in numerous exhibitions and biennales in Asia, North America and Europe. Notable exhibitions include VideoZone 5, the 5th International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel; Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea; Arts and Cities, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan; Connect: Art Scene Vietnam, ifa Galerie Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany; Fluid Zone, Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia; Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art After 1990, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China; Migration Addicts (Mogas Station), a collateral event of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Belief (Mogas Station), Singapore Biennale 2006. In 2009 he held a residency at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan. Hoang Duong Cam has been living and working in Ho Chi Minh City since 2001.
A Talk on the Non-fiction Writings and Essays of Tràng Thiên
Wed 09 Oct 2013, 3 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
manzi proudly introduces a special talk on the non-fiction writings & essays of Tràng Thiên, with the participation of writer Nguyên Ngọc, and literature critics Phạm Xuân Nguyên & Nguyễn Thị Bình.
“My Country”, published in 2012, marked the return of one of Vietnam’s best writers of the 1954 – 1975 period – Đoàn Thế Nhơn (born 20 Oct 1925), whose pen name is Tràng Thiên. On the occasion of his recently released collections of writings, we would like to invite you to join him for an intimate conversation.
Language: The talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.
Free Entry.
An Interactive Book Experience for Kids
Sun 06 Oct 2013, 3 pm
Bookworm
44 Châu Long, Hà Nội Now open every day 9am – 7pm
Come to the book launch of an interactive book experience for kids by Australian children’s author and illustrator. LACHLAN CREAGH is a freelance illustrator and concept designer from Queensland Australia.
He has written and illustrated his own children’s book, Dinosaur Rocks, as well as illustrating the 29 book series Little Mates for Scholastic, and the 8 book Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter series for Random House.
Lachlan is currently working on the 4th and 5th books in the Wombat Went a Walking series for Hachette and is beginning work on his next author/illustrated works.
LIMITED SPACE …..but PLACES CAN BE RESERVED… bookworm@fpt.vn or (04) 371 53711
A Talk about Shamanism in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam
Sat 05 Oct 2013, 10 – 11.30 am
54 Traditions Gallery
Shamanism – the backbone of Tribal Culture. Join us as Mark Rapoport will discuss the tribal groups of Northern Vietnam and the persistence of their shamanisms traditions. The talk will focus on the importance of the old and new artifacts, paintings and ceremonial tools used by the shamans. Mark will also discuss the practice and ethics of being a collector of these fascinating objects.
We have a lot of expertise here. Mark is an avid collector of the tribal art of Vietnam (and Africa). His own substantial collection includes many paintings and tools used by tribal groups residing from Thái Nguyên to the mountains of the China border. Mark along with business partner Nguyễn Thị Nhung and the 54 Traditions Gallery staff, have assembled and prepared exhibits at two Major – major museums in Hanoi, as well as at the East-West Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Language: English
Cost: 150,000 VND
Limit: 15 people
Contact: John at lefthanded2hanoi@yahoo.com
Please leave your mobile number so you can be contact in case of any last minute changes.
HCMC – Exhibition “Four Seasons”
Exhibition: 05 – 30 Oct 2013
Tu do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau, Dist 1, HCMC
You are invited to a laquer painting exhibition “Four Seasons” by 4 artists: Tran Thi Thu Ha (Hue, born 1952), Duong Tuan Kiet (Long An, born 1940), Vo Xuan Huy (Quang Tri, born 1970) and Nguyen Xuan Anh (Ha Noi, born 1977).
Saturday Fusion Maniac
Sat 05 Oct 2013, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
This Saturday, HRC will host 3 genres, 2 DJs and a live band.
::: So Good Fusion ::: Live jazz fusion
::: Dave Black ::: Indie DJ
::: Nate.B ::: House DJ
We’ll have Dave Black basting his favourite indie tunes in the courtyard. Red Room will be heated up by Nate.B with deep house. So Good Fusion brings the sax in for their grooves, and who knows where you would be led to by Nate.B closing off the night.
Courtyard:
9PM-11PM : Dave Black (DJ)
Red Room:
10.30PM-11.30PM : Nate.B (DJ)
11.30PM – 1AM : So Good Fusion (Live)
1AM – closed : Nate.B (DJ)
FREE ENTRY + 50% off G&T
Call for Contribution to Youth Culture Library in HCMC
Ed Weinberg lives in HCMC and is trying to establish an alternative library in Saigon, with magazines, art books, comics. He brought back all the cool punk-ethos mags that he has saved over the years and hopes to continue building it up. He is traveling to Hanoi from 3 to 8 Oct and wishes to receive some help from the Hanoians. Call him at 012 1387 1629 to contribute!
Description of the project:
The Youth Culture Library will house alternative magazines, ‘zines, comics, comix and art books — of the off-kilter, indie type not found in Ho Chi Minh City. They will all be housed in a sturdy, minimalist bookshelf on the wall of an as-yet undetermined café in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1. Library property won’t be available for borrowing, but we’ll work on getting a scanner so interested parties can load up images to their laptops.
In addition to the reading activities that will go on and the creative interaction that hopefully results, the Library intends to take an active role in this creative production — hosting fun nights with creative emphasis, like comix jams (where artists sit at common tables, each drawing one frame of a comic before passing it along), readings (of the extended, reading-a-whole-book-in-12-hours sort), drawing clubs, life drawing, all with a non-monetary emphasis. The goal of all this is to get people in this city more interested in the deep traditions associated with the printed word/doodle, which has suffered from years of economic embargo and piracy. Photocopied bestsellers rarely inspire a passion for books.
The founder’s initial suitcase of alt-mags (Vice Magazine, PEN America, Giant Robot, punk magazines, art magazines, niche magazines) has ratcheted up the Library’s holdings to around the 70 magazine mark, and we’ll be soliciting contributions from the entire region, as well as from those making trips outside Vietnam. Hopefully this will grow in an organic fashion, with our carefully-curated holdings increasing by the month.
Butoh Dance – Practical Workshop, Video Lecture and Performance
1. Butoh Dance – Practical workshop: 09 – 12 Oct 2013, 6 – 9.30 pm
2. Video Lecture: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 4 – 5.30 pm
3. Butoh Performance: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 6.30 – 8 pm
The Black Box
Butoh Dance – Practical workshop, Video lecture and Performance are 3 events with artist Katsura Kan to introduce Butoh Dance in Hanoi.
1. Butoh Dance – Practical workshop
Participants: The workshop is limited to 18 participants and is suitable for any-one interested in movements and dance with and without previous Butoh experi-ence.
Fee (after concession): 350.000VND
Language: Vietnamese, English
Dress: Comfortable, easy for movements
Led by Katsura Kan, the Butoh workshop explores the idea of “curious body” through the Group Observation of daily life which is the key to his understanding of main stream of Butoh as a movement ideas.
2. Video Lecture
Participants: The performance is suitable for artists, dancers, students and eve-ryone who are interested in creative movements and dance
Fee (after concession): Free
Language: Vietnamese, English
Led by Katsura Kan, the Butoh video lecture is a presentation with practitioners, lectures and students about “Surrealism of Body” which will be the short history about “Japanese Avant-garde art movement after WWⅡ in 1950s-60s as an origine of Butoh.”
3. Butoh Performance
Fee (after concession): Free
Audience: The performance is limited to 70 participants, suitable for people form the age of 15 and up
First time in Vietnam, artist Katsura Kan, Master of Butoh dance from Japan will perform his solo. In this event, students from the Butoh dance practical workshop will also have their own performance choreographed by Kan.
About lecturer/ performer
Katsura Kan, a native of Kyoto, is a Master artist from among the ranks of Japan’s senior generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe, “Byakkosha” 1979-1981 and then researching in Indonesia and Thailand for 20 years.
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Dang Minh Thu
Tel: 04-66639566 – Mobile: 097 7700 869
Email: minhthu@lifeartvietnam.org
The Black Box
56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Exhibition “Nhà Tây Transforms”
Opening: Thu 10 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 10 – 29 Oct 2013
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Manzi art space, in collaboration with Art Vietnam Gallery and Hanoi Grapevine is proud to present ‘Nha Tay Transforms’ featuring the latest works of artist scholars, Nguyen The Son and Tran Hau Yen The.
Nguyen The Son, the quintessential thinking man’s artist, continues his exploration of the physical and moral landscape of Hanoi as it transforms and mutates into the 21st Century. Ever a keen observer of not only the physical adaptations to this rapid change, Son considers the impact on the moral values and sense of community incurred in the race to modernize.
In his previous body of work, Nha Mat Pho (‘Houses facing the street’), Son photographs traditional Vietnamese tube houses considered in the 19th century a symbol of the pinnacle of success for the Vietnamese. Utilizing his unique method of “photo –relievo”, layers of photographs create a 3 dimensional structure that physically resembles the layers of transformation the houses have gone through over the years.
As the houses morph and are altered to fit the ever evolving needs of the inhabitants, they provide a mirrored reflection of the social, moral and physical landscape of the society itself.
As the Nha Mat Pho series addressed the social issues of the rampant materialism of the society, the discrepancy of wealth between the rich and the poor, and the imposing Western commoditization of the people, Son’s current body of work, Nha Tay Transforms follows suit.
In this latest series, Son continues his research of the transformations of the urban landscapes. These Nha Tay’s, (Western Villa) refer to the beautiful, spacious villas that were built by the French and represent all things beautiful, novel and exotic coming from a Western country. This blending of the architectural styles of East and West did indeed create a highly coveted way of living and this has continued to this day.
However as the city has expanded and developed, these houses are being adapted and transformed just as were the prestigious Nha Mat Pho. Additional structures, tin roofs, advertising billboards and all manner of extemporaneous additions are layered onto the original structure creating a haphazard structure of chaotic living.
Fellow artist, researcher Yen The adds yet another historical layer to this discovery of the life of the Nha Tay.
Following the maps and drawings of the French intellectual Henri Oger, who in 1908-1909 created 4,577 drawings of every aspect of the lives of the inhabitants, Yen The creates his own layer of analysis of the lifestyle of the inhabitants and the original façade of the villa. Through his research Yen The recreates the original details of the house and his drawings on Vietnamese Do paper compliment Son’s 3D works as an overlay portraying how the house has been transformed over the years.
This uncovering and retracing of the owners memories proved to be an emotional journey for the artist for as he states, “My drawings proved to be much more difficult than those executed by Henri Ogre, for it was not simply a work of taking notes or retracing an actual stage of life. It was actually similar to a long, poignant process of therapy for someone who has lost his memory after a tragic accident.”
Once again Nguyen the Son and his fellow researcher Yen The leave the viewer alone with their perceptions of how life is transformed by progress as it is named, and the repercussions of this modernity upon society.
Tran Hau Yen The 2
Born in Hanoi in 1978, known as one of the most important contemporary artists in Vietnam, Son got his Master’s degree in Fine Art Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2012. Apart from his solo exhibitions “Head wash”(2005), “High Above” (2007) and “New higher Level” (2009), ‘The road home is far away‘(2011), Houses facing the street’ (2012), Son’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in Vietnam and China from 2000 until today.
Born in Hanoi in 1970, Tran Hau Yen The got his master’s degree at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2004. He now is working at the Vietnam Fine Art University as a fine art researcher and a teacher.
In 1999, The did his first solo exhibition entitled ‘My Name Is’ at the Fine Art School and since then, he took part in different group shows including: ‘Emergency Room’ (2009), ‘The implicit Story’ (2008), ‘Vac & Xom’ (2005), ‘Within the Room’ (2005).
“‘Nha Tay Transforms’ is brought to you by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development.
Update: Tickets for CAMA Festival 7
Sat 12 Oct 2013, 1 – 11 pm
American Club
Firstly we would like to say congratulations to the readers who have won FREE TICKETS to the upcoming CAMA Festival! For those who are not lucky (yet), you can still save up a bit by buying advance tickets to the fest!
A limited number of advanced tickets for CAMA Festival 7 are now on sale in 16 locations around the city. Save your dong by getting tickets early at any of the fine establishments below:
Ticket Locations:
Cama ATK, 73A Mai Hac De, HBT
Jaspas, 4. Stock Hanoi Towers, 49 Hai Ba Trung
Puku, 16-18, Tong Duy Tan
Rock Passion, 182 Ngo 165 Chua Boc
Commune, 20A Duong Ven Ho, Tay Ho
Highway4 Restaurants:
5 Hang Tre
25 Bat Su
31 Xuan Dieu
54 Mai Hac De
575 Kim Ma
Al Fresco’s Restaurants:
19 Nha Tho
23 Hai Ba Trung
98 Xuan Dieu
114 B2 Nguyen Chi Thanh
1st floor, Vincom Royal City, 72 A Nguyen Trai
And if you haven’t checked it out yet, get excited by wrapping your ears round the CAMA Festival podcast for tracks and interviews with this year’s performers.
Screening of “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”
Sat 05 Oct 2013, 2 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
On Saturday October 5th 2013, TPD Centre will host next session of Two Thumbs Up Movie programme. We will screen Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), directed by Ang Lee.
About Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film, was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu. The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping.
Made on a mere US$17 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history. It has won over 40 awards. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Taiwan) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Foreign Film.
The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.
A Talk by Nguyễn Thế Sơn in Singapore
Wed 23 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Select Books, Singapore
Come to “The Vietnamese Cityscape in a State of Flux” – a talk by Nguyễn Thế Sơn in Singapore.
For the last ten years, Nguyễn Thế Sơn has been observing the changes of the Vietnamese cityscape, trying to understand the stories behind the process of erasure. In this presentation, Nguyễn will talk about his artistic practice, which encompasses silk painting, photography, photo relief and photo installation.
Biography
Nguyễn Thế Sơn (b. 1978) is a Master’s degree graduate from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. Since 2012, he has been working as a lecturer at the Vietnam Fine Arts University.
Selected solo and group exhibitions: “From Pho Phai to Nha Mat Pho”, Eight Gallery (Ho Chi Minh City), 2013; “Nha Tay”, Manzi Art Space (Hanoi), 2013; “Houses Facing the Street“, Cactus Contemporary Art Gallery (Ho Chi Minh City) and Goethe Institut (Hanoi), 2012; “Vietnam Now”, The Rotunda (Hong Kong), 2012; “The Group”, L’Espace (Hanoi), 2008; “Vina Tree”, Hanoi Fine Arts University, 2007; “Headwash”, Ryllega Gallery (Hanoi), 2005.
CAMA Festival 7: “Made in Berlin” with Raggabund
HANOI: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 8 pm
American Club
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TP HCM: Sun 13 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Cargo-Club Saigon
CAMA – Indochina’s longest running international music festival has been standing for good music, creativity and talent for seven years now. Once again in 2013, CAMA will bring domestic and international artists together in Hanoi. The bands of this year’s festival hail from Australia and Singapore, India and Brazil and of course well known Vietnamese musicians will be presented on October 12th from 1 to 11pm.
This year for the first time the German duo Raggabund will find their way to Hanoi. Presented by the Goethe-Institut, the brothers Paco Mendoza and Don Caramelo will play concerts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, themed “Made in Berlin”. The Band has long ceased to be an insider’s tip: Dancehall-Ragga, Roots Reggae, Latinbeat, Hip Hop or relaxed ballads, Raggabund explores different musical genres and stands for energetic shows. Having toured California, Mexico, Guatemala and Peru, Raggabund already gained international recognition. Singing sometimes in German, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish, the German duo with Latin American roots covers a wide spectrum of languages in their music. In their texts, they take up a stance on political and social issues, but also make space for universal themes such as zest of life, love or desire, providing the right mixture of social criticism and entertainment.
Tickets
Advance tickets (from 1st October 2013): 300,000 VND
Box Office: 350,000 VND
Students with valid student ID and children under 10 : 100,000 VND
Available at:
Cama ATK, 73A Mai Hac De, HBT
Jaspas, 4. Stock Hanoi Towers, 49 Hai Ba Trung
Puku, 16-18, Tong Duy Tan
Rock Passion, 182 Ngo 165 Chua Boc
Highway4 Restaurants
5 Hang Tre
25 Bat Su
31 Xuan Dieu
54 Mai Hac De
575 Kim Ma
Al Fresco’s Restaurants
19 Nha Tho
23 Hai Ba Trung
98 Xuan Dieu
114 B2 Nguyen Chi Thanh
1.Stock Vincom Royal City, 72 A Nguyen Trai
American Club
19–21 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
Cargo-Club Saigon
7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, HCMC
Improvisation Concert “Sesame, Open”
Sat 05 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Domdom
3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Welcome you all to the launch event for our new creative platform in Zone 9. On this occasion, we will once again meet the young and energetic faces, the first generation of DomDom’s experimental music training courses.
They will present a side-by-side performance with the famous Danish electronic musician and improviser – Jakob Riis, along with Kim Ngoc and our Vietnamese experimental artists friends.
Free entrance.
Quyen Thien Dac Jazz Quartet
Fri 04 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Come to Jazz Suite Night with Quyen Thien Dac Jazz Quartet:
Quyen Thien Dac: saxophone
Nguyen Minh Duc: bass
Nguyen Dinh Phuc: piano
Le Viet Hung: percussion
Tickets:
300 000 VND, 500 000 VND, 800 000 VND
Tickets available at Jazz Club, 65 Quan Su, and Hanoi Opera House
Or call 091 320 8953 – 094 387 8420 – 098 602 9786
Screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Wed 02 Oct 2013,8 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975, 100 minutes) directed by Jjim Sharman.
Synopsis: This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of party goers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia (Nell Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation — a figure wrapped in gauze and submerged in a tank full of liquid. With the addition of colored dyes and some assistance from the weather, Frank brings to life a blonde young beefcake wearing nothing but skimpy shorts, who launches into song in his first minute of life. Just when Brad and Janet think things couldn’t get any stranger, a biker (Meat Loaf) bursts onto the scene to reclaim Columbia, his ex-girlfriend. When Frank kills the biker, it’s clear that Brad and Janet will be guests for the night, and that they may be next on Frank’s list — whether for murder or carnal delights is uncertain. And just what is that mystery meat they’re eating for dinner, anyway? In addition to playing Riff Raff, O’Brien wrote the catchy songs, with John Barry and Richard Hartley composing the score.
Language: English with English subtitles.
Free entrance.
Exhibition “Viet – Thai Art Exchange”
Opening: Tue 01 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 07 Oct 2013
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
You are invited to the art exhibition “Viet – Thai Art Exchange”.
It is within the framework of exchange program between group artists from Vietnam and Thailand in 2013. This program will include workshops of art, seminars and exhibitions to introduce artists and their works in both countries.
Attendants from Vietnam include: Trinh Tuan, Vo Ta Hung, Nguyen Quang Huy, Nguyen Minh Phuoc, Le Thong , Bang Sy Truc, Nguyen Tran Cuong, Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, Vu Duc Trung, Nguyen Trung Dung, Vu Pham Truong Minh, Phan Cam Thuong, Dinh Van Hien and Vu Duc Hieu.
Tác phẩm
Artwork “Young seed 2″ by artist Worawut Thakaeo
Attendants from Thailand include: Somchai Wacharasombat, Wattanachot Tungateja, Nukoon Panyadee, Nitti Wattuya, Pakde Limpong, Jirawat Phirasant, Banlu Wiriyapornprapas, Pallop Wangborn, Saravut Vongnate, Thong Udompol, Somporn Teamprasit, Maitree Homthong and Worawut Thakaeo.
For more information, please contact: Trinh Tuan, email: tuanhoatrinh@gmail.com.
Screening of “Kerity, La Maison des Contes”
Fri 04 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Eleonore’s Secret” (France, 2009, 80 mins) directed by Dominique Monféry. This is “A new coup for the French animation”. (Nouvel Obs)
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Experimental Film Screening: The Freemartin Calf + As True As Troilus
Wed 02 Oct 2013, 8.30 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
The Onion Cellar is delighted to present the Vietnam (and Asia? hopefully) premiere of 2 experimental films written and directed by Franco-Australian filmmaker JAYNE AMARA ROSS (who also graced the works with her beautiful spoken-word poetry), shot on Super 8 and 16mm, and featuring haunting musical contributions courtesy of members of the Paris-based post-rock (or post-everything, to be precise) collective FAREWELL POETRY and friends.
THE FREEMARTIN CALF (2010)
A film by Jayne Amara Ross
Original music by Frédéric D. Oberland with Gaspar Claus
Poetry and narration by Jayne Amara Ross
SYNOPSIS
freemartin (n.): A sexually imperfect, usually sterile female calf born as a twin with a male calf due to the influence of male hormones during the development in utero. Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, 2007.
The Freemartin Calf relates a day in the life of two women: a young girl and her mother, as they brave two very separate realities laced with a very similar pain, fueled by a dogged desire to both reject and conform to the societal roles imposed upon them. The film is a deliberation on the subject of the creative process: the importance of a belief in the invisible creative mechanism (represented by the female body), the angst associated with the inability to create and the part of us that we leave behind in the final product.
‘The realistic narrative of ‘The Freemartin Calf’ never ceases to enrichen its symbolic basis with dreamlike imagery. Here we are closer to a naturalism that is transcended, magnified. From the ambitious mis-en-scène to the intricate structure of the film and the power of the facture, ‘The Freemartin Calf’ is a film of great maturity – and of extraordinary beauty.’
Gabriela Trujillo (Culturopoing, June 2011)
AS TRUE AS TROILUS (2009)
A film by Jayne Amara Ross
Original music by FareWell Poetry
SYNOPSIS
The film takes its title and mythology from Chaucer’s important 14th century poem ‘Troilus and Criseyde’, a retelling of a ‘faux’ Greek myth with Medieval origins, in which the main protagonist Troilus falls in love with Trojan Cressida who finally deceives and leaves him for the Greek soldier Diomedes. “In this work, Troilus embodies denial, he does not want to see his lover for what she really is. Despite the fact that she is ‘as false as Cressida’, he remains resolutely faithful in his love, desiring to be the superlative lover” (Nicole Brenez). The narrator of ‘As True As Troilus’ (just as Chaucer’s narrator) uses this myth to explore his own romantic mythology, using the characters and their situation to recount his own plight, illustrating the destruction of his own failed relationship with tableaux from the Trojan tale.
Free entry.
Screening of “Les Femmes du 6ème Étage”
Fri 11 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “The Women on the 6th Floor” (France, 2011, 106 mins) directed by Philippe Le Guay. “What a delicate, distinguished and jolly comedy!” (Le Journal du Dimanche)
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Music Festival of France and Vietnam “OHLÀLÀ”
Sat 12 Oct 2013, 7 pm
Hang Day Stadium
The top music event of France Year in Vietnam is coming to Hanoi! A special concert with a lot of duet and solo performances by famous duos and singers namely Thanh Lam, Le Cat Trong Ly, La Grande Sophie, Leila Bounous, Quang & Minh, Viet Vo Da House and electronic rock band Poni Hoax.
The music festival will present a mixture of different rhythms from electronic, pop, rock to folk music in 4 hours, which will help you discover the musical talents from Vietnam and France.
The program honors great female singers and they will perform in 4 languages (Vietnamese, French, Arabic and English). This is an opportunity for artists from two countries to meet on one same stage. They will appear together in an exciting, jolly and open festival.
The festival will present two very famous names La Grande Sophie and Thanh Lam. Sophie is known as a talented and charming singer with exquisite pop-rock style. She has won the best album award for her work “La Place du fantome” in Victoires de la Musique 2013 (equivalent to Grammy of the US). Whereas Thanh Lam, one of the best-known Vietnamese divas with her passionate vocal, will perform various genres of music from pop, rock to jazz, soul.
In addition, the audience will have the chance to enjoy the performance of other famous singers/groups such as:
Le Cat Trong Ly: Singer, songwriter, a poetic soul who can touch the audience’s heart. She will perform in a completely new style.
The duo Quang and Minh from Vietnam with Hamon and Martin from France – an interesting combination of four virtuoso folk musicians with a delicate contemporary folk style.
Viet Vo Da House (HCMC) with a blended style combining electro music, electric guitar with Vietnamese traditional instruments.
Leila Bounous. A new contributor to French music scene, this Algerian French female singer will bring to the audience some special electro – rock performances with her strong oriental vocals.
And finally, the music festival will end with the performance of Poni Hoax, a vibrant rock band. Their music somehow resembles David Bowie’s fascinating tunes.
All these great performances will undoubtedly bring unforgettable memory to the Vietnamese audience.
Tickets
Seating ticket price : 50 000 VND
Standing ticket price : 30 000 VND
Tickets are available at:
• L’espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
• Hang Day stadium, no.7 Trinh Hoai Đuc, Hanoi
Concert “Sieste Électronique”
HCMC: Sat 12 Oct 2013, 4 pm – 6:30 pm
Tao Dan Park
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Hanoi: Sat 19 Oct 2013, 3 pm – 6 pm
Independence Park
Let’s wander around the park, lean against a chair or lie down on grass, closes your eyes and discover sounds and world music.
“Sieste Électronique” (Electronic Naps) is a special program, developed in 2011 in Quai Branly Museum to enhance the value of Sound Heritage which is extremely rich.The concert wish to convey this value to a diverse audience in the hope that they can understand and appreciate the historical and cultural benefit of the sound treasure.
This is an event for experimental music which is adventurous and daring. However, experimental music is not necessarily electronic and contemporary music. Let’s forget about busy lives, pause for a second and open up your heart to enjoy the magical music. The mixture of electronic music, experimental music as well as Vietnam traditional music will enable the audience to relax and experience.
Attending artists:
French guest artists:
• Vincent Moon
Well-known with La Blogothèque netizens, Vincent Moon is famous for “take-away” concert (actually it is a video podcast), this idea has been implemented successfully by other people.
• Laurent Jeanneau
For more than 10 years, Laurent Jeanneau has continuously discovered the music of ethnic minority groups and recorded on fields to mix with electronic and acoustic elements.
• Jean Nipon
Jean Nipon, musician who creates thousands of sounds (8-bit with Teamtendo, breakcore with DJ Ai, Techno with Karat, more complex sound with Institubes, eclectic with Régine,…).
Vietnamese guest artists
• Vu Nhat Tan
Vu Nhat Tan is Vietnam’s top experimental sound artist & electronic musician, one of the best students of The Vietnam National Academy of Music. He has won many awards in Vietnam, Europe and Australia. Tan has performed with various sound artists and has played in Germany, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Bangkok and Singapore.
• Nguyen Hong Giang
The young musician from HCMC, since 2009, has explored the buzzing sound of electronic music under the pseudonym of Writher. During that time, he also participates in a post-rock project called Time Keeper. He has published album every 6 months and each of his compositions is posing new challenges for aesthetic today.
Free entrance.
Tao Dan Park
Truong Dinh, Ben Thanh, District 1, HCMC
Independence Park
Tran Nhan Tong, Le Duan, Hanoi
CAMA Festival 7
Sat 12 Oct 2013, 1 – 11 pm
American Club
19–21 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
Indochina’s longest running international music festival will return to Hanoi for the seventh time with a line-up of leading indie, rock, reggae and electronic acts ready to hit the capital Saturday 12 October.
The 2013 CAMA Festival promises to be the biggest and best yet, bringing international acts to join a host of leading local talent for a full-on day of musical mayhem in Hanoi. This year’s spectacular line-up of artists from around the globe includes Brisbane’s new generation of indie pop from The Cairos (Australia), electronic rock from Zoo (India), reggae duo Raggabund (Germany), UK-influenced indie darlings Turtle Giant (Brazil) and psychedelic sixties pop purveyors The Pinholes (Singapore). They’ll be ably supported by the best in local talent such as Hanoi-based nu-metal rockers 18+, legendary punk party starters The Offensive and Skank the Tank, Hanoi’s number one reggae soundsystem. Two of Hanoi’s favourite DJs: DJ Cache and GiGiMix will also be keeping the party going throughout the day.
CAMA Festival is an immersive day of fun for families and people of all ages, with up to 3,000 people attending each year. Besides non-stop live music on the main stage, CAMA are delighted to have teamed up with the Hanoi Flea Market to host a creative arts market at the festival. Around 30 stalls will show off the cream of Hanoi’s creative youth culture. In addition, there will be a children’s play area as well as food and beverages provided by a range of Hanoi’s leading restaurants and cafes offering the best of Vietnamese and international cuisine.
Hanoi’s first independent music promoters, CAMA Vietnam have brought over 100 international acts from more than 15 countries to Vietnam since 2005, including leading rock, hip hop and electronic performers from around the region and across the globe. Dedicated to the promotion of independent local, regional and international musical talent in Vietnam, CAMA host regular shows throughout the year, operate a bar cum performance space in the capital known as CAMA ATK and organise the annual CAMA Festival. 2013 marks the group’s 7th annual all-day music festival in Hanoi, an event which has become Indochina’s biggest independent annual music festival.
With the support of corporate brands such as Jagermeister, Tan Khoa, Red Rock Lager and Coca Cola, as well as cultural institutions Goethe-Institut, Made In Berlin and the Australian Embassy Vietnam, CAMA Festival 7 will kick off from 1pm on Saturday 12 October at 19-21 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi.
Tickets
A limited number of advance tickets go on sale for VND 300,000 from Tuesday 1 October at CAMA ATK and other selected outlets across the city. A complete list is available on the CAMA Festival website. Tickets on the door will be priced at VND 350,000 with a discount price of VND100,000 available for those holding a valid Vietnamese student ID card. Student tickets are only available on the door.
Band Line-up for CAMA Festival 7
Sat 12 Oct 2013, 1 – 11 pm
American Club
19 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
CAMA Festival is back with a bang! Indochina’s biggest and longest running international music festival is returning to a green space in the center of Hanoi for the seventh time this October and the line-up is bigger than ever.
2013’s event will see 12 acts on the main stage with acts from the Australia, India, Germany, Singapore and Brazil playing alongside some of Vietnam’s best artists. The music policy at CAMA is always eclectic and this year will be no different with indie, reggae, rock, folk, punk, metal and electro already confirmed. As always, the magic of the festival is discovering surprising new acts and having one hell of a good time. Indeed, the event’s crowd is almost as much fun to watch as the performances on stage: dancing, fancy dress and stage diving are all par for the course.
This year’s line-up may just be the most packed ever with a staggering 12 acts taking so the stage. As eclectic as ever CAMA have managed to juggle indie, electro, rock, metal, punk, folk and reggae into a cohesive bill. Check out who’ll be your new favourite bands after this year’s show.
Brisbane has long been Australia’s most fertile breeding ground for bands, a tradition which The Cairos look intent on continuing. The youthful four-piece bristle with energy and write infectious pop inspired by an upbringing of melodic sixties pop. Add a teenage youth of shoegaze to the mix and you start to see the roots of the group’s upbeat indie which is soundtracking Brisbane’s never-ending summers. Learn some chorus’s by checking out Colours Like Features, their first EP since signing to Island Records, then come sing along with them in Hanoi.
“It’s disgusting how young they are to be sounding this good.” – Rave Magazine
Zoo (India)
India isn’t renowned for its modern music, but Zoo are going someway to changing that. The polished quintet marry electro, techno, and rock into a series of brooding tracks that build into full-on cut-loose freakouts of electronic rock. Keeping everyone’s attention is charismatic female vocalist Tanya Sen.
Turtle Giant (Brazil)
Three-piece indie collective Turtle Giant aren’t nearly as big as they should be. Formed in Macau and featuring two Brazilian natives, the trio blend dreamy vocal harmonies with jangly guitar like a classic British indie band. Look out for single We Were Kids, it’s infectiously euphoric chorus would have the likes of Arctic Monkeys nodding in approval.
Raggabund (Germany)
This reggae duo do much to change perceptions of German culture, by moving away from the country’s trademark electronic sounds into something altogether different. Raggabund have been expressing their love for Jamaican music and socially conscious lyrics since 2000 in a smooth mix of reggae and urban dancehall. At CAMA Festival 7, the group will be providing bassy, ragga grooves to keep dutchies moving and crowds skanking.
The Pinholes (Singapore)
Who would’ve thought Singapore would produce a band making psychedelic sixties pop in 2013? The Pinholes are doing just that. Steeped in the sounds of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd, the group have just released an EP of repetitive guitar riffs that demand floppy-necked dancing and geometric light shows in celebration of youth, sunshine and rock and roll. Dance to the Youth of Gold EP in your bedroom, then break out your moves on the grass and in the afternoon sun of CAMA Festival 7.
Local Talent
As ever, CAMA Festival will showcase some of the best musical talent Hanoi has to offer.
18+
18+band2
In Vietnam rock and metal are mas¬sive and the cream of the crop right now are 18+. These five Hanoi kids blew everyone away earlier this year at ASEAN Fes¬ti¬val before mak¬ing it all the way to the finals of Tiger Translate’s Battle of the Bands. In Hanoi venues, 18+ have had young crowds go wild as their heavy sound and brutal vocals have struck the right chord with Vietnam’s youth. 18+ now find them-selves one of Hanoi’s biggest bands, but thank¬fully, these home-grown Nu-Metal heroes have the sound to fill expectations. Ready your metal horns and prac¬tice your head-bang for 18+’s performance at CAMA Festival 7.
The Offensive
Since 2000, the Offensive have been mixing sweat, blood and alcohol to bash out party punk rock for Hanoi crowds. Through various incarnations the offensive never fail to get the party rocking, as they showed when supporting Chinese post-punk legends PK14 in Saigon back in 2009. Think Black Flack, The Stooges and The Clash and you get the idea: punked up sounds to jump around to.
Skank the Tank Reggae Soundsystem
Fiyaah! From the early 60’s to the future dub sounds of tomorrow, Skank the Tank provide the finest reggae selections in Vietnam’s capital. Bringing heavy tunes, positive vibes and the best of sound system culture from Roots and Digital to Dancehall and Dub, the Skank the Tank crew have done more than anyone else to promote reggae music in Hanoi. Earlier this year they opened up for Shabazz Palaces and have since added some live instrumentation to the line-up. Put on your skanking shoes and come inna di dance with a peaceful mind!
Phuong Dang
Clever songwriting, a fraught voice and emotive piano made Phuong a favourite on the Hanoi music scene and saw her take to the main stage for CAMA Festival 5. The mercurial singer songwriter has taken the last year or so out to give birth to her first child, but is now ready to take to the stage again. Vietnam’s capital is lucky to have her back.
The Strangers
Four strangers from across the globe that sound like best friends having one hell of a good time. The Strangers play alternative rock with a host of ingredients like blues, funk, country and reggae. The band’s original tracks and well-chosen genre-bending covers have seen them blow the roof off Hanoi’s best music venues. Where do you go once you’ve had everybody in Hanoi Rock City, Madake, RockStore and Barbetta dancing like mad to your take on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky? That’s right, you go to CAMA Festival.
Official CAMA Festival 7 DJs
Every festival needs a festival DJ, and CAMA Festival 7 has two!
DJ Cache (Australia)
Australian born DJ CACHE quickly established himself at the heart of Hanoi’s burgeoning music scene back in 2010 by taking his eclectic sets of electronic goodness to every music loving venue in the capital. Cache has shared the bill with some of the biggest international names to play in Vietnam, never failing to impress with choice cuts of downtempo beats, classic hip hop, electro funk, deep house, drum & bass and much more. In 2011 and 2012, Cache rocked Hanoi’s excellent Soundstuff Festival, proving that he has more than earned the right to take center stage at CAMA Festival.
DJ GiGiMiX NoMaD (France)
DJ GiMiX NoMaD is quite rightly considered one of the funnest DJ’s on the Hanoi circuit. Inspired by burlesque parties and electro swing, GiGiMiX has filled dancefloors all over Vietnam’s capital, earning himself a residency at The Sofitel Metropole. When supporting Soil & “Pimp” Sessions’ Hanoi show, GiGi kept 2,000 people dancing to electro swing, funky beats, disco house, nu-soul and latin jazz breaks long after the band had left the stage. Soil & “Pimp” Sessions aren’t an easy act to follow, but then, neither is GiGiMiX.
HCMC – Performance of Ballet Cinderella
12 and 13 Oct 2013, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
You are invited to the performance of ballet Cinderella. The “Cinderella” ballet is choreographed based on the fairy tale about the poor girl lives with her stepmother and stepmother’s daughter. She is ill-treated, forgotten in the kitchen. She was not allowed to be in the party of the prince.
The ”Cinderella” ballet performed by Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera is choreographed by famous Norwegian choreographer Johanne Jakhelln Constant, who was successful with “The Nutcracker” ballet in 2011 and 2012.
A royal palace, a glittering gown, dancing with a handsome Prince in a candlelit ballroom… such fanciful dreams were only in Cinderella’s imagination. But thanks to her Fairy Godmother, her life of hardship is magically transformed. Making a dazzling entrance to the royal ball, she captures the attention of all and the heart of the Prince. Yet this beautiful dream must end at midnight, and in her haste to depart, she leaves one jewelled slipper behind…
Ballet Cinderella 2
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Johanne Jakhelln Constant
Assistant choreography: Nguyễn Phúc Hùng, Phan Thị Hồng Châu
Scenography & Costume design: Johanne Jakhelln Constant
Artists: Trần Hoàng Yến, Đàm Đức Nhuận, Nguyễn Phúc Hùng, Nguyễn Lương Hòa, NSƯT. Phan Thị Hồng Châu, Nguyễn Thu Trang, Nguyễn Thị Thu Thuỷ, Trần Thị Hồng Vân, Đinh Thị Diễm Trang, Hoàng Ngọc Thuỳ Trinh, Đào Văn Thiện, Hồ Phi Điệp, Thạch Hiểu Lăng and HBSO Ballet.
Tickets
Ticket price: 650.000 – 550.000 – 400.000 – 150.000 VND (for students only). Discount 10% when buying before 30 Sep.
All tickets are available at:
Ticket Counter, HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC.
Email: info@hbso.org.vn.
Booking and delivery: 08 3823 7419; Ms.Hương: 0989874517; Ms. Ngọc: 0909493938
Music Night with SAY OMS
Sat 05 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
What’s that? Is that the unmistakeable sound of a new band slamming into Hanoi? Ooooh yeah.
Ohh, you’re in for a treat Hanoians. Settle into your chairs and let me tell you about the newest, and dare I say it – the BEST band playing contemporary (non pop) music in Hanoi – they are called…
SAY OMS
They’re a funky melody and a scattered love story; lively, soulful, introspective and full of jive. A piano and a girl, a groove, and a drum set. Grab a cushion and sit near the front. Pull up your knees and share the night. Say Oms are ecstatic to be playing Hanoi Social Club and they’ll be happy to see you there too.
Genre defying, but with lashings of soul. We’ll light some candles, put out some cushions and serve you cake and wine. All you need to do is turn up and have your senses entertained.
You’re going to be hearing a lot from these guys – say you saw them at The Hanoi Social Club before they become famous.
Tickets: 100,000 VND.
Meals on Reels – A Season of Food Movies
01 and 29 Oct 2013, 6.30 pm
Hanoi Cooking Centre
44 Chau Long Street
Now the balmy and dry autumn nights are upon us, welcome to an open air cinema every first and last Tuesday of the month. October kicks off with two films about sibling rivalry in the kitchen.
On October 1, we will show Big Night (USA, 1996). Two brothers, volatile chef Primo and smooth talking restaurant manager Secondo, try to save their failing Italian restaurant by putting on a special dinner concert. Featuring sharp dialogue and a cracker soundtrack, this movie is a real treat.
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Taiwan, 1994) by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Life of Pi) on October 29 charts the love lives of three very different sisters and revolves around huge Sunday night dinners prepared by their father, a widowed senior chef. A classic of the genre with great characters and sumptuous food photography (don’t miss the opening scene!).
Entry is free.
HCMC – Exhibition “Red Thread”
Opening: Thu 03 Oct, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 03 – 23 Oct 2013
Craig Thomas Gallery
27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, Q.1, HCMC
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6pm; Sundays 1 to 5 pm; and by appointment
You are invited to “Red Thread”, a solo exhibition of new ink and water color paintings on do paper by Saigon-based artist Bui Tien Tuan.
After nearly a decade of focusing on silk as the medium for his poetic, dream-like portraits of women, Tuan has taken an unexpected turn with his latest Red Thread series, appropriating the traditional medium of do paper with ink and watercolors. The artist insists, however, that the shift is not intended to be permanent. Rather it is a return to the “origins” of his career as a young artist during which time he was renowned for his do paper works.
Floating in empty spaces dominated by the rough texture of the do paper, the women in Bui Tien Tuan’s Red Thread collection recline, crouch, and cavort in mid-air or over an invisible bed. In varying states of undress, there is inevitably a red thread in their delicate hands which spins around their semi-extended bare legs or their beautifully formed torsos. The facial features of Tuan’s women are sometimes visible and sometimes hidden by their hair or an averted gaze, allowing us to fantasize about their identity. For Tuan, the ever-present red thread is a line that links the viewer to his labyrinthine world of poetic sensuality.
Silk and do paper are fundamentally different materials and the use of both evidences Tuan’s craft mastery and range as an artist. Silk has a finer and softer look which imparts an untouchable quality to the skin of the women in Tuan’s earlier portraits. In contrast, do paper is full of textures and has a “relief” quality to it. On close inspection, the uneven surfaces of the Red Thread paintings hint at the real, stronger quality of actual skin with pores, fine hairs, and other small imperfections.
As in Tuan’s earlier work, the women in the Red Thread collection are “urban women.” These women, however, are less distant and unreachable. They are presented on a more personal and intimate level, allowing the viewer a more palpable experience of the artist’s world.
While his silk portraits were a window into the artist’s dream world, the Red Thread paintings transport the viewer directly into this world where sensuality can be touched through the textures of the do paper.
HCMC – Art House Cinema – Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Tue 01 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe
32 Tran Ngoc Dien, District 2, HCMC
You are invited to come to the film screening of “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer” (88 mins) by directors Mike Lerner and Maxin Pozdorovkin.
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?
Tickets: FREE (donations for our chosen charity Wildlife at Risk are gladly accepted)
Exhibition by Vietnamese Artists in London
Press/Private view: Thu 31 Oct 2013, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 09 Nov 2013, 11 am – 6 pm
Store Street Gallery
32 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS, England
After the preview in New York, the group show exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese fine art curated by Raquelle Azran is coming to the Asian Art in London. Titled “Worlds of Paper and Wood”, the exhibition will showcase artworks of Dinh Thi Tham Poong, Vu Thu Hien, Phung Pham, Trinh Tuan and Vu Duc Trung.
The oldest, Phung Pham, is 79 years of age and the youngest, Vu Duc Trung, is 32. Trinh Tuan, considered a master teacher as well as artist, is the third male lacquer artist in the show. The two women artists in the exhibition, Vu Thu Hien and Dinh Thi Tham Poong, are both 43 years of age and were in the same graduating class of the Fine Arts Academy in Hanoi, and work in watercolour on handmade paper.
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